Nicolas Cage

for better or for worse, for myself, I had realized, for better, what I had wanted to achieve with film performance, with things like Vampire's Kiss and Raising Arizona and Adaptation.

I kept pushing the envelope in terms of different points of expression within film performance, and I felt that I had said what I wanted to say with cinema, landing on Dream Scenario, which I'm very proud of.

And...

Thinking, well, how am I going to – what's next?

How am I going to stay interested?

What am I going to do?

What's going to challenge me?

And I thought, okay, it's either going to be stage or television because I haven't done really that in any meaningful way as far as I'm concerned.

Some high school plays, a bad television pilot that got – didn't get picked up.

And so I thought, well –

How am I going to stay interested?

Let's do something interesting on television.

David Lynch had done Twin Peaks, and he reinvented.

He introduced.

He took the mass tool of television, the episodic tool of television, and introduced surrealism to millions of people, which is immense.

Again, hopscotching, metatextually, art synthesis.

Halston did it.

He was a genius designer, and he decided he wanted to take the mass tool of JCPenney, but the snobs in New York pooped on his head, and it didn't pick up.

Now everybody's doing it.

He was ahead of his time.